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Friday, October 17, 2014

The Irrationality of the Pro-Choice Mindset

The Blaze has reported on a woman on Reddit who has posted an open letter to her unborn child, a young person which she is going to have aborted next Friday. You can read the letter here.

Let's be clear about something, first. I am sympathetic to her position. I know it can be difficult to raise an unborn child when one is not ready to be a mother. The people in her life should be rallying around her to help her through this difficult situation and help prepare her to be a good mother for this child. I just don't see that this is adequate grounds for anyone to kill their child, to say nothing of the fact that the choice of whether to become a mother is before the procreative act of sex, not after. Once the child is conceived, you are a mother and have obligations to care for your offspring, whether or not you feel ready for them.

Well, I agree with you...if. If what? If the unborn organism growing in the woman's body was not a human being. Since the unborn organism growing in the woman's body is a human being, we cannot allow a woman to kill her child in the name of bodily autonomy. No one wants to force a woman to be pregnant against her will. Arguing against abortion is not about oppressing women or negating their bodily autonomy, it's about not letting her kill a human child. The time to decide whether or not you want to be pregnant is before the procreative act of sex, not after.

Yes you are you stated that you believe in no abortion even in the case of rape, your absolutist view is wrong and inhumane, so is the abortion until 9 months view also wrong. I have no issue with drawing the line at 2nd trimester, that makes if fair for both woman and unborn.

All you do is make assertions. I have provided ample argumentation for my view. You can't refute an argument by stamping your feet and saying "you're wrong." That works on a schoolyard, not in the marketplace of ideas.

It is not absurd to grant personhood rights to embryos if they are, in fact, persons. People in our country once thought it absurd to grant personhood rights to black people, but now it is uncontroversial that black people deserve rights. You can make the argument for anything, that granting anyone personhood rights violates my rights. Granting infants personhood rights violates a woman's bodily autonomy by requiring that she breastfeed to keep her child alive. If you want to deny personhood rights to the unborn, you have to give us an argument for why they are not persons.